Ep 288 - Valkyries and Shieldmaidens with Carolyne Larrington and Cat Jarman

Nordic Mythology Podcast

Daniel Farrand

Historical, Nordic, Norse Mythology, History, Comedy, Odin, Mythology, Education, Medieval, Viking, Myth, Vikings, Thor, Norse

4.8 • 356 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 88 minutes

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In this week's episode, Dan and Mags are joined by Carolyne Larrington and Cat Jarman. Two beacons in their own fields within Norse mythology and history, who are here to regale us with the legends of the Valkyrie.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Norden Mythology podcast.
0:08.8	I'm Daniel Farrant, on with company, Hornsvod.
0:11.1	And as always, before we jump to the show, I do have to plug out Patreon.
0:14.6	It's how we keep the lights on.
0:16.4	It's the lifeline of the show.
0:18.3	I'm going to keep it short this week, so I want to get into today's show. So if you can, pop over to Patreon 4 slash Nordic mythology podcast. It starts
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0:31.4	back catalog at this point, we've got over 260 episodes only available on our Patreon with
0:36.9	amazing guests.
0:38.3	So please go and check that out.
0:39.4	If you can't, a five-star rating, positive review, wherever you get your podcast.
0:43.3	Maybe somebody new will discoverers and they will fall in love with the show.
0:48.5	But with that said, let's get into today's show.
0:51.4	We have two fantastic guests, but first I have to introduce my
0:56.1	lovely co-host who I sometimes may forget, but not today.
1:01.0	You got there.
1:02.4	Mags have an hour in-house archaeologist.
1:05.0	Hi, hi, everyone. I also want to say, for those of you who are like catching this episode after
1:09.7	it's, you know, been aired, so like a few weeks in the future for us currently if you are watching the video of this
1:15.6	we are filming this on Halloween which is why I'm wearing bat wings so that's all I'll say and then
1:22.3	we can move on to the episode. Yeah so we have two fantastic guests both of these were like I said a bucket list guest for me
1:32.8	and it's such an achievement the podcast has been going quite a while now and to have these two
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